One Room Challenge - Week 2 - Palmetto Highway

One Week of Demolition Progress For my Powder Room Remodel

This week should be named “It is Going to Get Worse Before it Gets Better”.

I do my best to keep my ‘construction zone’s clean and to clean between each step so that I don’t get too overwhelmed with how chaotic a renovation can be.

I also have pets and if I leave the door open, I don’t want them trailing wallpaper adhesive throughout the house or to eat something dangerous. So I clean.

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THE START

The first thing I did was take apart the vanity. It’s such a small space that it would be difficult to keep opening and closing the door so I pried open the window and tossed all the debris out the window onto a tarp!

Powder room vanity before and after. The before has cabinets and green wallpaper, the after only has a pipe coming out of the wall and no wallpaper.

TRIM

I plan to replace all the trim and have board and batten on part of the walls. I used a Trim Puller with a rubber mallet to remove all the window, door, and baseboard trim.

Once I removed all the trim, I had to use Channellock Pliers to pull out all the staples and nails left behind. I went ahead and did this now so that the space is ready to install trim next week.

The channel lock pliers pulling a nail out of where trim used to be

THE WALLS

To prep the walls for the new design, I had to remove all the old stuff. Typically wallpaper has a decorative layer and an adhesive layer. I peeled off as much of the decorative layer as a I could before using the wallpaper steamer.

If you want to learn more about removing wallpaper with a steamer, check out this post about it!

Green wallpaper is being pulled back to reveal a tan colored adhesive layer

DONE! JUST KIDDING

I finished almost everything for the week. I still have some of the wallpaper to remove but I am slowly seeing my vision. Removing the wallpaper really brightened the space and makes it easier to see the design.